This is such bullcrap. Egypt's newspaper printed the pictures and there was no outrage. When the home culture says it is not culturally insensitive but the adopted culture think it is then the world is totally insane!
Egypt is sitting there saying "This did not offend us" while Europe is telling them "You should be offended!"
Chirac must surely be in deep in favors he owes to Saddam and Iran.
What's concerning me is the genearlized "European" subservience to what is seen by most the rest of us as a planned (at least, prearranged) "reason to riot."